Bindable Readline Commands

Commands For Moving	Moving about the line.
Commands For History	Getting at previous lines.
Commands For Text	Commands for changing text.
Commands For Killing	Commands for killing and yanking.
Numeric Arguments	Specifying numeric arguments, repeat counts.
Commands For Completion	Getting Readline to do the typing for you.
Keyboard Macros	Saving and re-executing typed characters
Miscellaneous Commands	Other miscellaneous commands.

This section describes Readline commands that may be bound to key sequences. You can list your key bindings by executing bind -P or, for a more terse format, suitable for an inputrc file, bind -p. (See Bash Builtins.) Command names without an accompanying key sequence are unbound by default.

In the following descriptions, point refers to the current cursor position, and mark refers to a cursor position saved by the set-mark command. The text between the point and mark is referred to as the region.